Panos Kammenos
Economy
Tsipras Woos Partners But Says No Bailout Deal
ATHENS – Greece’s new power broker, SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras, is trying to form a coalition government in the wake of the country’s fractured election results, but has laid down tough conditions that would require a rejection of...
Economy
Samaras Says He Can't Form Coalition, SYRIZA's Turn Is Next
ATHENS – New Democracy head Antonis Samaras, whose party finished first in the May 6 general elections but with less than 19 percent of the vote, said after less than a day of trying that he can’t form a...
Economy
Without a Coalition, New Elections Loom in Greece
ATHENS – New Democracy Conservative party leader Antonis Samaras, whose party gained first place in the May 6 elections with only 18.86 percent of the vote – its worst showing ever – has until May 10 to form a...
Economy
Greek Election: Political Leaders Spin the Results
ATHENS – Even as the votes were still being counted in the May 6 general elections to replace a temporary, shaky coalition government, and with exit polls showing big gains for groups opposed to the austerity measures demanded by...
Economy
Greek Elections Campaign Reaches Home Stretch With Promises Flying
ATHENS – After a three-week campaign that was mostly conducted in closed-doors members-only rallies and away from a public furious over austerity measures, a mix of mainstream traditionalists, anti-capitalists, anti-bailout groups, Nazis, nationalists and even a porno star made...
Greece
Editor of Greek Newspaper Arrested
Editor of Greek daily newspaper Friday 13th, Emilios Liatsos, was arrested earlier on Friday after the wife of the leader of the Independent Greeks party, Elena Tzouli, had pressed charges against him and his paper for violating a court’s...
Greece
Candidate MP Vassilis Chitos Financed by Hellenic Intelligence Service
Vassilis Chitos has been a crime news journalist for the past 15 years who decided to enter the elections as a candidate with Panos Kammenos' new political party, Independent Greeks.
Independent Greeks has often discussed the subject of political transparency. Now, Kammenos...
Greece
Kastelorizo To Be Included In Olympic Flame Relay
The Greek island of Kastelorizo, located in the so called “agoni grammi” will finally be included in the Olympic torch relay across the country that gave birth to the Olympic Games.
Kastelorizo, a small island southeast of Rhodes, was not...
Economy
Greece's Critical Election Campaign Set to Kick Off
ATHENS - With only three weeks to woo voters before the May 6 election, Greece's political parties will try to rally support beginning this week in a campaign to elect a new Prime Minister and government amid rising anger...
Greece
Greek MP Announces New Political Party
Independent MP Panos Kammenos, a former member of New Democracy, presented the founding declaration of his new party "Independent Greeks" on Sunday, from the symbolic location of Distomo, the tragic scene of Nazi atrocities during WWII.
A key element of...